FIVEo1 GUATEMALA
NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESILIENCE BLUEPRINT

2026–2030

FIVEo1 California
California-based technology company

I. EXECUTIVE OBJECTIVE

FIVEo1 will establish a carrier-neutral telecommunications and digital-infrastructure platform in Guatemala designed to reduce operational dependence on any single telecommunications carrier, international route, cloud provider, technology vendor, or physical infrastructure provider.

FIVEo1 will not initially compete with Tigo or Claro as a conventional mobile-network operator.

The operating model is an independent infrastructure and control layer combining:

• Multi-carrier connectivity
• Software-defined networking
• Carrier-neutral interconnection
• Edge computing
• Local cloud infrastructure
• Local content caching
• Cybersecurity
• Geographic redundancy
• Cellular backup
• Satellite backup
• Selective fiber and dark-fiber capacity
• Critical-infrastructure connectivity

The objective is to provide enterprises, government, logistics operators, ports, technology companies and other critical customers with connectivity that continues operating when an individual provider, route or infrastructure component fails.

II. VERIFIED GUATEMALA TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT

Mobile Market

Guatemala is effectively a two-player mobile market led by:

• Tigo Guatemala — Millicom
• Claro Guatemala — América Móvil

Millicom reported 11.7 million Tigo mobile customers in Guatemala at December 31, 2025, making Tigo the country's largest mobile provider.

Current independent market data does not support continuing to list Telefónica/Movistar as a separate major mobile operator. Telefónica's Guatemalan operation was acquired by América Móvil, leaving Tigo and Claro as the two major mobile operators.

Guatemala had approximately 20.6 million cellular connections at the end of 2025, equivalent to approximately 110% of the population because individuals can hold multiple connections. Internet users numbered approximately 11.6 million, representing approximately 62% Internet penetration.

Corrected market position

The previous figures:

• Tigo 48%
• Claro 42%
• Movistar 9%
• 20 million total subscribers

are not used as current 2026 market-share figures in this proposal.

The verified current position is:

III. SPECTRUM CONCENTRATION

The original spectrum figures require correction.

In the 2023 700 MHz auction, 60 MHz was offered in three blocks. Tigo obtained 20 MHz and Claro obtained 40 MHz. The auction generated approximately Q1.006 billion.

Therefore, the 700 MHz allocation should not be described as Tigo 65% and Claro 35%.

The 65% / 35% split applies to the 2.5/2.6 GHz auction, which generated approximately Q383 million, with Claro receiving 65% and Tigo 35%.

Verified spectrum position

This establishes a concentrated mobile-spectrum environment without requiring FIVEo1 to acquire spectrum.

IV. INTERNET RESILIENCE

Internet Society's current Guatemala data provides a direct infrastructure rationale for FIVEo1.

Guatemala's Internet Resilience Index is 47/100. Internet Society reports:

• 6 active data centers
• 2 active Internet Exchange Points
• 36 combined IXP members
• 67 active networks
• 55% of active networks connected through an IXP or an IXP member
• 16% of the 1,000 most-visited websites accessible through an in-country server or cache
• Poor market competition
• Very good international connectivity diversity

The 16% local-cache figure is particularly relevant to FIVEo1's edge-network strategy. Internet Society identifies 50% as its target for the local-content indicator.

V. FIVEo1 STRATEGIC POSITION

FIVEo1 will not attempt to duplicate the national mobile networks of Tigo or Claro.

It will build the infrastructure and software layer between:

Carriers → Enterprises → Government → Ports → Cloud → Internet

FIVEo1 will control:

• Routing policy
• Multi-carrier failover
• Network monitoring
• Customer edge devices
• Security policy
• Edge computing
• Local storage
• Local caching
• Interconnection
• Service orchestration
• Resilience management

FIVEo1 will not need to own every fiber, tower, data center or satellite system.

VI. FIVEo1 GUATEMALA CORPORATE STRUCTURE

FIVEo1 California

Role: U.S. parent and technology/control-plane organization.

Responsibilities:

• Technology platform
• Network architecture
• Software
• Security architecture
• Product development
• Engineering standards
• Vendor management
• International network relationships
• Capital allocation

FIVEo1 Guatemala, S.A.

Role: Proposed Guatemalan operating company.

Responsibilities:

• Local contracts
• Local personnel
• Colocation
• Connectivity procurement
• Customer contracts
• Regulatory compliance
• Local network operations
• Government and enterprise relationships
• Tax and accounting obligations

The final ownership, tax structure and regulatory structure will be established by Guatemalan legal counsel before commercial operation.

VII. REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

The Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones (SIT) administers Guatemala's telecommunications regulatory and registration framework.

SIT maintains a Telecommunications Registry, including commercial network operators and their network information. SIT's electronic portal specifically provides procedures for:

• Commercial network operators
• Local network operators
• International port operators
• Numbering
• Telecommunications registration

FIVEo1 regulatory procedure

Before selling connectivity, FIVEo1 will obtain a formal legal/regulatory determination from SIT and Guatemalan telecommunications counsel covering each service.

SIT specifically maintains registration procedures for mobile terminal equipment and SIM-card commercializers.

Guatemala's telecommunications law also provides for number portability subject to the applicable regulatory framework and technical/economic feasibility. FIVEo1 will not make number portability a launch dependency.

VIII. FIVEo1 COMMERCIAL DIVISIONS

1. FIVEo1 Connect

Multi-provider enterprise connectivity.

Customers receive one managed connection with multiple underlying providers.

2. FIVEo1 Resilient

Connectivity engineered for continuity.

Possible inputs:

• Fiber provider A
• Fiber provider B
• Cellular
• Satellite

3. FIVEo1 Edge

Regional computing and caching.

Services:

• Application hosting
• Video processing
• AI inference
• Local databases
• CDN/cache
• Local application delivery

4. FIVEo1 Cloud

Guatemala-hosted infrastructure:

• Virtual machines
• Storage
• Databases
• Backup
• Private cloud
• Disaster recovery

5. FIVEo1 Secure

Managed cybersecurity:

• Firewall
• DDoS protection
• Network segmentation
• Secure VPN
• MFA
• Zero-trust access
• Monitoring
• BGP/RPKI security
• Incident response

6. FIVEo1 Exchange

Carrier-neutral interconnection platform connecting:

• ISPs
• Carriers
• Cloud providers
• Universities
• Banks
• Government
• Content providers
• Enterprises

IX. PRIMARY NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

                         GLOBAL INTERNET
                               │
                 ┌─────────────┼─────────────┐
                 │             │             │
              U.S. ROUTES   CARIBBEAN     PANAMA/
                           ROUTES          REGIONAL
                 │             │             │
                 └─────────────┼─────────────┘
                               │
                       FIVEo1 CORE
                               │
                 ┌─────────────┴─────────────┐
                 │                           │
          PRIMARY NOC                    DR NOC
       GUATEMALA CITY               QUETZALTENANGO
                 │                           │
                 └─────────────┬─────────────┘
                               │
                MULTI-CARRIER CONTROL PLANE
                               │
          ┌────────────────────┼────────────────────┐
          │                    │                    │
       FIBER A              FIBER B              5G
          │                    │                    │
          └────────────────────┼────────────────────┘
                               │
                         SATELLITE BACKUP
                               │
                     FIVEo1 NATIONAL MESH
                               │
       ┌───────────┬───────────┼───────────┬───────────┐
       │           │           │           │           │
 Guatemala     Escuintla     Xela      P. Quetzal  P. Barrios
    City
       │           │           │           │           │
       └───────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────┘
                               │
                       CENTRAL AMERICA

X. PRIMARY NOC — GUATEMALA CITY

Deployment period

0–9 months

FIVEo1 will lease initial infrastructure inside an established carrier-neutral or enterprise-grade data center rather than construct a standalone data center.

Initial NOC capacity

• 10–20 rack positions
• Redundant routers
• Redundant firewalls
• Core switching
• BGP
• IPv4/IPv6
• SD-WAN
• VPN
• Network monitoring
• Security monitoring
• UPS
• Generator-backed facility
• Environmental monitoring
• Physical access control
• Remote management
• 24/7 monitoring

The initial NOC will function as both:

1. FIVEo1's network-control center
2. Guatemala City's first FIVEo1 edge node

XI. COLOCATION STRATEGY

Guatemala's data-center market is expanding.

IFX Orión

IFX placed Orión into operation in 2026.

Verified characteristics include:

• More than US$25 million initial investment
• Approximately 5,000 m²
• 160 racks in the initial configuration
• Approximately 2.5 MW capacity
• Tier III certification/design information reported by IFX
• Guatemala location in Mixco
• Planned additional Guatemalan investment exceeding US$100 million over three years

KIO GTM1

KIO's GTM1 is an operating carrier-neutral facility with approximately 385 kW capacity. KIO's official specification identifies it as carrier-neutral and open to carriers.

KIO GTM2

KIO announced an investment exceeding US$20 million in GTM2.

Verified project characteristics:

• Approximately 1 MW initial IT capacity
• Designed for 8–12 kW rack densities
• Expandable to 2 MW
• 19 carriers already integrated into the KIO ecosystem
• Construction period estimated at 12–16 months
• Target operations: Q1 2027

FIVEo1 deployment rule

FIVEo1 will maintain physical infrastructure in a facility with carrier access and will avoid single-facility dependence as the network expands.

XII. PHASE 1 CAPITALIZATION

Initial capitalization target: US$325,000

This is a FIVEo1 planning budget, not a vendor quotation.

Final expenditures require competitive vendor quotations before commitment.

XIII. MULTI-CARRIER CONNECTIVITY

Deployment period

Months 6–12

FIVEo1 will purchase capacity from multiple independent providers.

Initial architecture

                 FIVEo1 CUSTOMER
                       │
                  FIVEo1 EDGE
                       │
              ┌────────┼────────┐
              │        │        │
           FIBER A   FIBER B   5G
              │        │        │
              └────────┼────────┘
                       │
                  SATELLITE
                   BACKUP

FIVEo1 will own the routing intelligence rather than immediately owning the physical last-mile infrastructure.

XIV. SD-WAN CONTROL SYSTEM

Each enterprise customer will receive a FIVEo1-managed edge router capable of managing multiple WAN paths.

The controller evaluates:

• Availability
• Latency
• Packet loss
• Jitter
• Bandwidth
• Cost
• Application priority
• Provider status

Normal operation

Fiber A       Primary
Fiber B       Secondary
5G            Tertiary
Satellite     Emergency

Fiber A failure

Fiber B       Primary
5G            Secondary
Satellite     Emergency

Terrestrial failure

5G            Primary
Satellite     Emergency

The actual percentage of traffic assigned to each path will be dynamically determined by the FIVEo1 controller rather than fixed nationally.

XV. SATELLITE RESILIENCE

Starlink is currently available for business service in Guatemala.

Starlink's Guatemala fixed-site business service currently lists:

• Local Priority 50 GB: US$61/month
• Local Priority 500 GB: US$156/month
• Hardware: US$1,999

Starlink describes Priority service as providing network priority, public IP capability and business support.

FIVEo1 will use satellite primarily as a backup and emergency connectivity layer, not as the primary national transport network.

XVI. REGIONAL EDGE NETWORK

Deployment period

Months 9–24

Initial regional locations:

1. Guatemala City
2. Quetzaltenango
3. Escuintla
4. Puerto Quetzal
5. Puerto Barrios / Santo Tomás de Castilla

Each node will be deployed according to demonstrated customer demand and available carrier/fiber infrastructure.

XVII. REGIONAL NODE STANDARD

Planning budget per node

Five nodes at this base configuration equal approximately $470,000, before engineering, travel, deposits and contingency.

Phase 3 planning allocation

US$600,000

Final deployment costs will be determined by actual colocation, fiber, equipment and installation quotations.

XVIII. FIVEo1 LOCAL CLOUD

Each regional node will provide a distributed computing platform.

Services:

• Virtual machines
• Object storage
• Database hosting
• Backup
• Disaster recovery
• Video processing
• AI inference
• Private cloud
• Application hosting
• CDN/cache
• Local content delivery

FIVEo1 will compete on:

• Resilience
• Locality
• Multi-provider connectivity
• Security
• Low latency
• Disaster recovery
• Vendor neutrality

FIVEo1 will not compete solely on commodity virtual-machine pricing.

XIX. LOCAL CONTENT AND EDGE COMPUTING

Internet Society reports that only 16% of Guatemala's 1,000 most-visited websites are accessible through an in-country server or cache.

FIVEo1 will use this infrastructure gap to develop a domestic edge/cache platform.

Traditional architecture

Guatemala user
      │
      ▼
International network
      │
      ▼
Foreign server
      │
      ▼
Guatemala user

FIVEo1 architecture

Guatemala user
      │
      ▼
FIVEo1 Guatemala Edge
      │
      ├── Local cache
      ├── Local application
      ├── Local database
      └── Local content

This reduces unnecessary international transit for content that can legally and technically be cached locally.

XX. FIVEo1 EXCHANGE

Deployment period

Months 12–24

FIVEo1 will develop a carrier-neutral interconnection platform.

Initial participants

• ISPs
• Telecommunications carriers
• Cloud providers
• Banks
• Universities
• Government networks
• Content providers
• Technology companies
• Enterprise networks

Guatemala currently has two active IXPs with 36 combined members, according to Internet Society's July 2026 data.

FIVEo1 will enter this ecosystem as an additional neutral interconnection platform rather than assume that existing IXPs do not exist.

XXI. PORT AND LOGISTICS NETWORK

The two strategic coastal locations are:

• Puerto Quetzal — Pacific
• Santo Tomás de Castilla / Puerto Barrios — Caribbean

FIVEo1 will develop connectivity and edge services around the logistics ecosystem rather than seek ownership or control of the ports.

Puerto Quetzal node

Potential infrastructure:

• Redundant fiber
• Multi-carrier connectivity
• Edge computing
• Secure Wi-Fi
• IoT connectivity
• Video processing
• Cybersecurity
• Local cloud
• Logistics APIs
• Backup communications
• Disaster recovery

Caribbean node

The same architecture will be deployed at Santo Tomás de Castilla/Puerto Barrios according to commercial demand.

Digital corridor

PACIFIC
   │
Puerto Quetzal
   │
Escuintla
   │
Guatemala City
   │
Puerto Barrios
   │
Santo Tomás de Castilla
   │
CARIBBEAN

XXII. BACKBONE STRATEGY

FIVEo1 will not immediately construct a national fiber network.

The sequence is:

1. Lease existing fiber
2. Purchase dark-fiber IRUs where economically justified
3. Lease conduit where available
4. Establish redundant leased routes
5. Identify high-value traffic corridors
6. Construct selective owned fiber only where utilization supports the capital expenditure

This prevents unnecessary initial capital expenditure.

XXIII. FIVEo1 WILL NOT BUILD A NATIONAL MOBILE NETWORK FIRST

A conventional mobile network would require:

• Spectrum
• Radio-access equipment
• Towers/sites
• Backhaul
• Core network
• Power systems
• Fiber
• Field operations
• Large-scale capital

FIVEo1's initial strategy therefore remains:

Do not become another national MNO.

Instead, FIVEo1 will build infrastructure capable of serving multiple carriers, ISPs and enterprises.

XXIV. FIVEo1 SECURITY ARCHITECTURE

Physical

Every strategic node will use:

• Controlled physical access
• Locked racks
• Video surveillance
• Environmental monitoring
• Fire protection
• UPS
• Facility-backed generator capacity
• Remote environmental alarms

Network

• Redundant firewalls
• Network segmentation
• DDoS mitigation
• BGP filtering
• RPKI validation
• Encrypted management
• MFA
• Zero-trust administration
• Centralized logging
• Security monitoring

Internet Society's current Guatemala data reports 92% of IPv4 prefixes and 75% of IPv6 prefixes protected by RPKI ROAs, while only 17% of networks use ROV.

FIVEo1 will therefore implement RPKI/ROV as a core routing-security requirement.

Data

• Encryption at rest
• Encryption in transit
• Immutable backup
• Geographic replication
• Offline recovery capability
• Access logging
• Role-based access control

XXV. FIVEo1 RESILIENCE STANDARD

Every strategic FIVEo1 facility will target the following architecture where commercially and technically available:

Critical customer services will target 99.99% availability or higher only where the underlying infrastructure and contracted SLA support that target.

XXVI. FIVEo1 EMERGENCY MODE

The network will be designed so that loss of international connectivity does not automatically eliminate locally hosted services.

During an international outage, FIVEo1 nodes can continue providing:

• Local applications
• Local websites
• Local databases
• Local maps
• Local content
• Internal enterprise communications
• Local video
• Emergency information
• Local authentication services where architecturally supported

Satellite connectivity can then provide limited external communications.

Operating principle

Local services continue locally; external services use remaining available paths.

XXVII. COMMERCIAL REVENUE MODEL

The following are FIVEo1 target pricing bands for financial modeling, not established Guatemala market prices.

Actual pricing will be determined by bandwidth, SLA, installation, hardware, redundancy, location and customer requirements.

XXVIII. FIRST 100 TARGET CUSTOMERS

FIVEo1 will initially target customers for whom connectivity interruption has a measurable financial or operational cost.

These are customer-acquisition targets, not forecasts of guaranteed contracts.

XXIX. GOVERNMENT MARKET

The World Bank approved a US$50 million Smart Public Finance project for Guatemala in September 2025. The project is designed to modernize public financial systems, improve public expenditure management, transparency and decision-making. Guatemala and the World Bank formalized the financing agreement in January 2026.

The project is therefore a potential government technology-procurement environment, but it does not establish that FIVEo1 will receive a contract.

FIVEo1 will pursue government opportunities through normal procurement procedures.

XXX. GOVERNMENT PILOT

FIVEo1 will propose a three-location resilience demonstration:

Site 1

Guatemala City government facility

Site 2

Quetzaltenango regional government facility

Site 3

Puerto Quetzal logistics/port-related facility

Each site will use:

• Primary terrestrial connection
• Secondary terrestrial provider
• Cellular backup
• Satellite backup
• FIVEo1 SD-WAN
• Central monitoring
• Local edge capability

Demonstration tests

Actual results will be measured and documented during the pilot.

XXXI. CAPITAL ROADMAP

These figures are FIVEo1 planning estimates and require engineering designs, vendor quotations and site surveys before financing commitments.

XXXII. CUMULATIVE CAPITAL TARGET

FIVEo1's initial objective is not the $50M deployment.

The capital sequence is:

$325K → revenue → three nodes → five nodes → IXP/cloud → backbone → regional expansion

XXXIII. FIVE-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION

2026 — FOUNDATION

Guatemala City

• Establish FIVEo1 Guatemala
• Complete SIT regulatory determination
• Establish legal/accounting structure
• Lease carrier-neutral colocation
• Deploy primary NOC
• Deploy core routing
• Establish multiple upstream connections
• Deploy security infrastructure
• Launch FIVEo1 Resilient Enterprise Connect
• Acquire first enterprise customers

Target capital: $325,000

2027 — REGIONAL NETWORK

Deploy:

• Guatemala City
• Quetzaltenango
• Escuintla

Establish:

• Multi-carrier SD-WAN
• Regional edge
• Cloud services
• Cybersecurity services
• Backup connectivity
• First government/critical-infrastructure pilot
• Enterprise customer base

Target cumulative capital: approximately $1M

2028 — NATIONAL FIVE-NODE PLATFORM

Add:

• Puerto Quetzal
• Puerto Barrios/Santo Tomás de Castilla

Establish:

• Pacific–capital–Caribbean corridor
• Port connectivity
• Regional edge computing
• Local content caching
• Disaster recovery
• Satellite resilience

Target cumulative capital: approximately $2M

2029 — DIGITAL BACKBONE

Develop:

• Carrier-neutral IXP/interconnection
• Expanded local cloud
• Edge network
• Port infrastructure
• Dark-fiber IRUs
• Selective owned fiber
• Government contracts
• Enterprise resilience contracts

Target cumulative capital: approximately $3.5M–$6M

2030 — CENTRAL AMERICAN EXPANSION

Evaluate expansion from Guatemala into:

• Honduras
• El Salvador
• Southern Mexico

The expansion will use the same carrier-neutral model rather than immediately constructing national mobile networks.

Target: US$10M+ FIVEo1 infrastructure platform.

XXXIV. CORE CONTROL-PLANE ARCHITECTURE

                    FIVEo1 CALIFORNIA
                           │
                  GLOBAL CONTROL PLANE
                           │
              ┌────────────┴────────────┐
              │                         │
          SOFTWARE                  SECURITY
              │                         │
              └────────────┬────────────┘
                           │
                    FIVEo1 GUATEMALA
                           │
             ┌─────────────┴─────────────┐
             │                           │
       GUATEMALA CITY NOC           XELA DR NOC
             │                           │
             └─────────────┬─────────────┘
                           │
             ┌─────────────┼─────────────┐
             │             │             │
          FIBER A       FIBER B          5G
             │             │             │
             └─────────────┼─────────────┘
                           │
                       SATELLITE
                           │
                  FIVEo1 NATIONAL MESH
                           │
      ┌──────────┬─────────┼─────────┬──────────┐
      │          │         │         │          │
   GUATEMALA  ESCUINTLA   XELA   P. QUETZAL  P. BARRIOS
      │          │         │         │          │
      └──────────┴─────────┴─────────┴──────────┘
                           │
                    CENTRAL AMERICA

XXXV. FIVEo1 OPERATING PRINCIPLE

FIVEo1 will not replace one foreign dependency with another.

The infrastructure architecture will use multiple independent providers wherever technically and commercially practical.

XXXVI. FIVEo1 RESILIENCE MODEL

                 NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE
                              │
       ┌──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┐
       │                      │                      │
   CARRIER A              CARRIER B              CELLULAR
       │                      │                      │
       └──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┘
                              │
                         FIVEo1 SD-WAN
                              │
                     ┌────────┴────────┐
                     │                 │
                 LOCAL EDGE        SATELLITE
                     │                 │
                     └────────┬────────┘
                              │
                      CUSTOMER SERVICES

The network is designed around provider independence rather than provider replacement.

XXXVII. FINAL STRATEGIC POSITION

FIVEo1's competitive position in Guatemala is not based on owning the largest number of towers, the most spectrum, or the largest fiber network.

The company will own and operate the control, routing, security, edge and resilience layer that connects multiple infrastructure providers.

Guatemala already has:

• Two major mobile operators
• Multiple international connections
• Six active data centers
• Two active IXPs
• Carrier-neutral data-center infrastructure
• Expanding cloud capacity
• Dark-fiber availability
• Cellular networks
• Satellite connectivity
• Growing local data-center investment

Internet Society's current measurements establish a 47/100 Internet Resilience Index, two active IXPs, 36 combined IXP members and only 16% local accessibility of the country's 1,000 most-visited websites.

At the same time, private investment is expanding the country's digital infrastructure. IFX has placed the US$25M+ Orión facility into operation and announced more than US$100M of additional planned investment in Guatemala over three years. KIO is investing more than US$20M in GTM2, expanding its Guatemala capacity and carrier ecosystem.

These conditions permit FIVEo1 to enter without financing a national fiber or mobile network at launch.

XXXVIII. FINAL FIVEo1 DEPLOYMENT TARGET

Initial capitalization

US$325,000

First physical infrastructure

Guatemala City NOC/edge node inside a carrier-neutral data center

First technical objective

Three independent connectivity paths

1. Fiber provider A
2. Fiber provider B
3. Cellular/satellite backup

First commercial product

FIVEo1 Resilient Enterprise Connect

First target market

Financial, government, logistics, industrial and other connectivity-critical organizations

First geographic expansion

Guatemala City → Quetzaltenango → Escuintla → Puerto Quetzal → Puerto Barrios/Santo Tomás de Castilla

Five-year infrastructure objective

A carrier-neutral Guatemalan digital-infrastructure platform capable of maintaining critical connectivity and locally hosted services when an individual carrier, terrestrial route, international path, cloud provider or technology component becomes unavailable.

XXXIX. VERIFIED REFERENCE BASE

Regulation

• Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones — Telecommunications Registry and operator procedures.
• Guatemala General Telecommunications Law — numbering and portability provisions.
• SIT mobile equipment/SIM commercialization registration system.

Market

• Millicom 2025 annual reporting — Tigo Guatemala 11.7M mobile customers at December 31, 2025.
• DataReportal/GSMA — 20.6M mobile connections and 11.6M Internet users at end-2025.

Spectrum

• 700 MHz: Tigo 20 MHz / Claro 40 MHz; approximately Q1.006B auction proceeds.
• 2.5/2.6 GHz: 65% Claro / 35% Tigo; Q383M auction proceeds.

Internet infrastructure

• Internet Society Guatemala Resilience Index: 47/100.
• 6 active data centers.
• 2 active IXPs / 36 combined members.
• 55% of 67 active networks connected through IXPs.
• 16% of top 1,000 websites accessible through local server/cache.

Data centers

• IFX Orión: >US$25M, approximately 5,000 m², 160 racks and 2.5 MW reported by IFX.
• IFX announced more than US$100M additional Guatemalan investment over three years.
• KIO GTM1: approximately 385 kW and carrier-neutral.
• KIO GTM2: >US$20M, 1 MW initial capacity, expandable to 2 MW, 8–12 kW rack density and 19 integrated carriers.

Satellite

• Starlink Guatemala business fixed-site service: Local Priority 50 GB at US$61/month and 500 GB at US$156/month; hardware listed at US$1,999.

Government digital-finance opportunity

• World Bank Smart Public Finance project: US$50M approved for Guatemala.

FINAL FIVEo1 POSITION

FIVEo1 will not attempt to own Guatemala's telecommunications market.

FIVEo1 will build the independent infrastructure-control layer that allows Guatemala's existing and future networks to operate together with greater redundancy, local processing, security and continuity.

The first objective is US$325,000 of deployed infrastructure in Guatemala City.

The five-year objective is a multi-node, carrier-neutral national digital backbone connecting Guatemala City, Quetzaltenango, Escuintla, Puerto Quetzal and Puerto Barrios/Santo Tomás de Castilla, followed by Central American expansion.

The architecture is carrier-neutral, vendor-neutral, multi-path and designed to eliminate single-provider dependence.